Trump Hates Shit, He Hates A Lot of Shit, But the Things He Hates The Most: LGBTQIA+ People
Echoes of history--this time the screams of our transgender ancestors
The Nazis didn't just hate gay and transgender peopleβthey criminalized them through a complex web of laws and regulations designed to make their existence increasingly difficult and eventually impossible. Section 175 of the German criminal code was expanded under Nazi rule to criminalize any male homosexual contact, leading to thousands of arrests. Special police divisions were created specifically to target homosexuals. Medical classifications were changed to pathologize gender nonconformity.
Enter The Orange Shitler
The Trump administration's approach to LGBTQ+ rights follows this same bureaucratic assault with terrifying precisionβstarting in his first administration and then escalating since he got back into office. One of the first executive orders he signed this time, literally on his first day in office, declared that transgender people do not exist.
Theyβve filed briefs arguing that Title VII didn't protect gay or transgender employees. Theyβve removed healthcare protections anβ¦
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